Comments on: Why I’ll Wait on Snow Leopard, and Why Maybe You Should Too

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:45:52 +0000

That cat is now on 10.6.2 and I still have a few very annoying bugs: Can’t use my printer at all, macbook won’t sleep, at least I now can shut it down.

As today my productivity has suffered to much and I’m downgrading to 10.5, good thing I kept my full Leopard clone handy. And yes, when I boot from my external HD with Leopard, none of my present bugs exist.

;-/

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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:41:08 +0000

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By: Ben Abbott

Ben Abbott — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:51:22 +0000

I’ve installed Snow Leopard and am *all most* happy with it. The only remaining problem is that TeXShop no longer works. When dvips is called, I expect dvips to be called as …

/sw/bin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdflatex.834/myfile.ps myfile.dvi

Instead I see …

/sw/bin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdflatex.834/-n myfile.ps -n myfile.dvi

:-(

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SEC Suspicious, Opens Investigation — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:58:16 +0000

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By: Blair

Blair — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:02:54 +0000

I’m in the exact same boat as Steve mentioned above. I use an HP 5M LaserJet printer via AppleTalk (ethernet connection via router)… I upgraded to Snow Leopard yesterday, spent hours last night trying to re-configure this printer without success. Now, thanks to Time Machine, I’m back to 10.5 again for the time being and printing just fine.

Anyone have a suggestion for how to integrate my HP 5M via ethernet? I’ve been checking around online and see that some people are recommending that I use TCP/IP to set it up (which my HP5P does have). The thing is, though I can specify an IP address on it, I have no clue which address to give to it. I tried going through the router, assigning the printer the IP address that the router is, and it printed and communicated with it, but then the internet wouldn’t work. So I’m assuming that meant that it was conflicted.

I tried to just select TCP/IP on both the printer and then trying to get it installed in the system preferences, but nothing worked there to set it up and it didn’t recognize it.

So overall, I liked the added speed that Snow Leopard brought, but in the end it’s not worth it for me yet until I decide I want to replace the printer.

By: mech

mech — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:08:12 +0000

I hope you are joking, but if not:

DropBox is an online storage that syncs your computer’s files with the cloud. It is platform independent and you can also view all your files via any web browser. When I work on a project, I am not stuck with one copy of the file and am free to continue working on it on any of my platforms (mac, win, linux). Also, has a nice Public folder that lets you create URLs to your files to send to friends.

PS I host my website and blog via DropBox. Overall, probably the most essential application at the moment for me for sync/storage/backup.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:04:33 +0000

I installed it yesterday. I had a fairly important document to print this morning and figured all was well. My coffee cup fell to the floor and shattered when Snow leopard had no record of drivers for my faithful HP 3745 printer. So in a panic I went to the HP website and sure enough there was no driver at all for 10.6! Thank God I was able to transfer my document to another Mac and print it with 10.5 at my neighbors house. Now my printer is a paperweight and I’m really paranoid. Come on people get it together!

By: OpenThreads

OpenThreads — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:32:26 +0000

I’ve had Snow Leopard installed since noon today. So far, no problems. I had to install rosetta because of my Epson scanner monitor…but the system told me that I needed to do it, and then installed it for me automatically.

My Parallels 4.0, VMWare Fusion (with Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux clients), Office 2008 Pro, Adobe Creative Suite CS4 (Photoshop, etc.), Thunderbird, Firefox, iView MediaPro, Canon Digital Photo Professional, Canon ImageBrowser, Canon EOS Utility, X11 (regular & full screen XDMCP to my linux box Ubuntu 9.04 KDE desktop), Cisco VPN Client 4.9.01.0180, Adobe Lightroom 2.4 are all working fine.

There’s an Aperture update that just came out today that I installed.

So far, so good.

By: MrMojo

MrMojo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:26:05 +0000

Upgrading a cloned volume on an external drive is one way to go… If you use a lot of third-party apps/haxies like I do it gives you a worry-free way to see how everything works with an OS upgrade.

If things go well then it is easy to use SuperDuper! to copy the cloned volume to your Mac. BTW, SD! was updated to 2.6 today and is now compatible with Snow Leopard.

By: Fkick

Fkick — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:36:11 +0000

I’ve been an early adopter of Mac OS releases since OS 8. Yeah, there are definitely issues every once in awhile, but the great thing about Leopard is that you should have an Up-To-Date backup with Time Machine on an hourly basis (or you can just run a manual one to make sure everything is up to date).

If anything goes horribly wrong with the SL install and you realize that none of your apps work, pop in your 10.5 disc, reformat and reinstall from a Time Machine Backup, simple (yes, there are those that will complain about lost time, deal with it).

I’ll be updating as soon as that disc hits my front door, and yes I’ll be the guinea pig. I don’t mind being a “Gamma Tester”. :)